From Times Higher Education: “USAID previously awarded universities about $350 million to research solutions to global problems, according to the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. And a USAID memo detailing just over $75 billion in cuts includes an array of cancelled payments to universities, from $424 million promised to Johns Hopkins University to a $1,308 grant to a Guatemalan university. That retreat from the US’ often unheralded role in global research has left many wondering what comes next. Can anyone or anything step into the breach? Will a new ecosystem of global collaboration on research emerge? How much of the potential damage to global research can be avoided?”
